Three abortions and eight decades later, this woman says feminism ‘failed’ her
Candy Thompson says young women today are ‘hungry’ for marriage and motherhood but don’t know how to find it
Octogenarian Candy Thompson, who says she left her Christian faith after embracing feminism and later had three abortions during her first marriage, eventually returned to Christianity and said feminism “failed” her.
“The feminists pitted [women] against men, they pitted us against having children … It belittled who we were in the home and [as] mothers, and it belittled who we were as just women in a marriage,” Thompson told Fox News Digital.
“When it pitted us against God even … then that’s what really led to what happened to me,” she continued.
“[Those values] didn’t seem to answer the questions that I was asking. And then I heard about feminism, and that was in the culture … It sounded good because it was about equality,” she added.
“I had a really, really traumatic experience between my junior and senior year. I had a miscarriage in the college dorm … Instead of going to my parents, instead of going back to God … I just went right on with what I had been doing. I look back at that and see that was when my life began to go really downhill from there,” Thompson continued.
After a miscarriage, Thompson said she married the first man she dated. The marriage ended in divorce, and Thompson said she had three abortions during the relationship. She now recognizes those pregnancies with acknowledgment-of-life certificates.
“There were lots of effects like anger. I did not understand as a young woman what my actual created purpose was … Those things were not really clear until I returned to my former faith,” she said.